The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Three: Private W. J. R. Hall, 20th Middlesex (Artists) Rifle Volunteers and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Captain, Army Service Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Diamond Hill (1439 Pte. W. J. R. Hall, C.I.V.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. W. J. R. Hall.) VM with officially re-impressed naming, good very fine (3) £140-£180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria.

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William John Reginald Hall was born at Twickenham on 23 January 1875. He enlisted into the Artists Rifles in 1897 and served with their City Imperial Volunteers detachment in South Africa during the Boer War in the Infantry Battalion. Discharged from the C.I.V. at his own request on 7 October 1900, he settled in South Africa, marrying in the Western Cape in 1903 and working in the Civil Service in the Transvaal and also for Dunlop Rubber Co. in South Africa.

During the Great War Hall returned to England in January 1916 to enlist, joining the Army Service Corps on 5 April 1916 and serving with them on the Western Front from 23 May 1916. Commissioned Second Lieutenant on 8 May 1916 he was advanced Lieutenant, 8 November 1917, and Acting Captain 21 November 1918. He relinquished his commission on 18 June 1919 and died in Lymington, Hampshire, in 1951.